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April 1, 2019

U.N.-funded social-studies textbook says 'Zionist occupation started in 1856'

An UNRWA classroom (U.N. Photo/Shareef Sarhan)
"A 2017 United Nations-funded school textbook for Arab students offers a revisionist history of Israel as part of its goal to incite violence against Israelis.

'Since the Zionist movement established in 1856 its first settlement, known as 'Montefioriyyah' [Mishkenot Sha'ananim, built by Sir Moses Montefiore before the emergence of modern Zionism], south-west of the Jerusalem city wall, the series of division [actions] in Palestine has not stopped,' according to social-studies book for ninth-graders funded by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, which was established by the U.N. General Assembly in 1949 to assist Arabs who became refugees during Israel's War of Independence the previous year.

'It [i.e., the Zionist movement] established settlements that included training centers and arms depots. After the 'Catastrophe' [Nakba in Arabic] of 1948 it ruled over more than 78% of Palestine's territory,' continues the text...

Palestine has never been a state...

UNRWA's distribution of textbooks that promote Palestinian violence against Israel has long been documented.

The Trump administration slashed all U.S. funding to UNRWA last August."
Date
April 1, 2019
Title
UN-funded social-studies textbook says ‘Zionist occupation started in 1856’, JNS.org
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https://www.jns.org/un-funded-social-studies-book-says-zionist-occupation-started-in-1856/
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